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Can Europe Go Hollywood?

Updated Nov. 30, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

What Europe calls its film "industry" has a big problem: no customers. It can't get enough people to watch the movies it makes. Instead, Europeans flock in droves to the red-blooded American thrillers that their intellectuals love to hate. It's a Continent-wide epidemic.

So EU bureaucrats went looking for a cure and started to review a recent report released by Commissioner for Audiovisual Policy Marcelino Oreja and nine "audiovisual experts." At the heart of the report, which proposes several ways to...